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1. use mintupdate to upgrade only those packages under level 1,2,3OR2. use apt-get dist-upgrade

I get confused which method is the right way in linux mint debian.

Besides this, I have run to a problem when I tried to upgrade pidgin from 2.7.x to 2.9.x. It says,E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)===========

If you don't want to go as far as dist-upgrading, there's a good solution provided in the tech talk below:http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1394.htmlIn short, just do:apt-get install perl -o APT::Immediate-Configure=0In my case, apt complained that perl would break gcc. So I just included gcc in the game:apt-get install gcc perl -o APT::Immediate-Configure=0Now things r fine!Best regards,Emerson